In the tsunami of hagiography following the death of Fidel Castro, one of the more fatuous statements came from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, son of pro-Castro Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Trudeau fils described Fidel Castro as a “remarkable leader” who “made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation,” and seemed surprised that anybody could think otherwise. When later pressed whether this remarkable Cuban leader was indeed a dictator he tersely replied “yes.”
That recalls an observation from French writer Andre Gide, author of The Immoralist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in …read more
Source: FrontPage Mag
